Chapter 84 begins the process of digging the cave again.

It was another sunny day, but Xu Que felt a bit lost. He didn't know what to do!

He had been in the Black Deer tribe for quite some time! This was the first time he had felt so alone here.

Hou had already learned to ride the wooden bicycle he had given him, and pedaled it to Xu Que's side: "What are you thinking about, Brother Xu Que? Are you bored? Sometimes I get inexplicably in a bad mood too, and I get really bored! Come on, I'll take you to other tribes to see how they dig tunnels!"

"good!"

Hou glanced at Xu Que and gestured for him to sit on the front crossbar of the wooden bicycle!

"No! You mean you're going to carry me? Can you even pedal? If I sit on the crossbar in front of you, can you even see the road ahead? You know I'm taller than you, sister!" Xu Que looked at Hou incredulously as she slowly walked to her side, refusing to sit in front of her.

"Don't you think I can't look at the road with my head tilted like this? Do you think I'm stupid?" he roared at Xu Que with a laugh.

"Alright! I'm going to sit down now!" Xu Que said, and sat down directly on the wooden beam in front of the rooster.

Hou rode his wooden bicycle all the way, pulling Xu Que along for a ride.

"Uh! I was supposed to be pedaling so you could sit on the crossbar of this old bicycle! Now we're completely reversed! Seriously! But if you can pedal without too much trouble, it's not so bad for me to sit in front! Anyway, it feels cool with the wind blowing around! I quite like this kind of life!"

As expected of a girl who often gathers resources in the tribe, she used to run around outside all the time, but now she can pedal her bicycle without even breaking a sweat!

Hou and Xu Que quickly arrived at the front of a tribe. She gently pulled the brake on the wooden bicycle handlebars to stop the bike in front of the tribe, and then gestured for Xu Que to get off the bicycle crossbar.

When the cavemen who were preparing to dig another hole saw Hou riding a bicycle, their eyes were filled with terror.

With that primitive sense of mystery and curiosity, they gathered around to get a closer look at the hoarse wooden bicycle.

"Come on, make way! Everyone, don't block my way! I'm going to give you a performance of a beautiful woman riding a bicycle!" As soon as Hou finished speaking, the tribe members surrounding them made way for him.

Hou rode his wooden bicycle, pedaling it round and round in front of the primitive people who were watching.

The tribe's primitive people couldn't help but applaud as they watched Hou Feiyang pedal her bicycle with such grace and style!

Xu Que applauded for her from the side.

Seeing so many people applauding for her, she couldn't help but feel a surge of joy and happiness, and she pedaled even more proactively and enthusiastically.

The cavemen who were preparing to dig holes and those who were already digging holes were so engrossed in watching the roaring bicycles that they forgot to dig the holes!

Seeing this, Xu Que deliberately coughed twice, then said to all the primitive people watching, "Have you all dug holes? We rode over here to watch you dig holes!"

Upon hearing this, the primitive people suddenly realized what was happening and picked up their tools to begin working on the cave, which was already one-tenth open.

Hou stopped pedaling her wooden bicycle and instead pushed it over to Xu Que, watching with him how the tribe members dug the tunnel.

The members of the tribe, each with very rudimentary drilling tools, persevered in carving into the hard cliff face.

Men, women, and children all came out together. Some carried sharp stone shards made by hammering another stone, some carried pointed branches, and some carried bone knives...

They had no special skills for digging holes; they just used these crude tools and brute force to poke into the soil, throwing away the soil that fell off and continuing to poke.

The current Empress Hou, seemingly overflowing with sympathy for everyone, promised the primitive people digging caves with their rudimentary tools, "Oh dear! Your tools for digging are so crude! Tomorrow I'll have Brother Xu Que make you some wooden tools! They'll definitely be much better than these! Quickly throw these tools away! They're useless! Once Brother Xu Que has made some good tools, I'll send them to you, okay?"

Upon hearing what Hou said, the primitive people of the tribe in front of them were so excited that they almost jumped up on the ground: "Really? You're really going to make us tools for digging? That's wonderful! Sister Hou is so kind! Look at all the people in our tribe, can you really make so many?"

"We can't make that many sets, ten at most!" Hou looked at Xu Que, and after seeing that Xu Que didn't blame her, she nodded to the members of the tribe with certainty.

"Make ten sets? When are you going to make them? We have to deliver them tomorrow! Now we can only go back to work overtime, sister!" Xu Que looked at the roar with a speechless and helpless expression.

Hou scratched his head a little embarrassedly, blinked at Xu Que, and said, "Huh? Did I cause you trouble again? Is it too much trouble to make ten sets of tools for them to dig?"

Hearing what Hou said, Xu Que didn't know what to say.

"No, that's not it! I think we should go home now? After we get back, we can make a few sets for their tribe, and then deliver them today or tomorrow if we have time! Is that okay?" Xu Que looked at the roar.

"Alright! Let's go back then! Let's go!" Hou skillfully draped her long legs over the bicycle seat, then twisted his hips to the right, took one hand off the handlebars, and patted the wooden bicycle crossbar: "Brother Xu Que, sit here and let's go home!"

Xu Que sat on the crossbar of the wooden bicycle, and Hou carried him back to the Black Deer Tribe.

Upon returning to the tribe, Xu Que immediately took out a multi-functional power automatic drill and a logging saw from the system warehouse. He then found the hardest wood in the tribe, white hardwood, and carved various tools for digging into it, such as wooden shovels, wooden spades, pickaxes, and dozens of other tools!

After Xu Que finished all of this in one go, he handed it to Hou for inspection.

Hou was seeing these things for the first time; she didn't recognize any of them.

"Brother Xu Que, are these all for digging? I think this is the first time I've ever seen them! How do you use them? They look so difficult!"

"This is for shoveling soil, and this is for digging soil!" Xu Que picked up these items and demonstrated them to the person next to him.

"Oh! I see! I understand now! Brother Xu Que is so smart!"

While still very interested in making these earth-shoveling tools, Xu Que made dozens more sets in one go, just in case he needed them later.

"Hmm! These ten are the ones you promised to give to that primitive tribe member! Keep the extras in our tribe, we might need them later! Oh, right! Our Black Deer tribe also uses these wooden iron shovels to clean the enclosures of our captive wild animals! Keep these for our tribe."